Aldama (a), IIIAB
Meteoritical Bulletin entry for Aldama (a). This iron’s medium-octahedral structure has been partly recrystallized by natural or artificial heating, followed by rapid …
Astoria, IIIAB
21.45 kilogram main mass. Photos by Marlin Cilz.
Bear Creek, IIIAB
Bear Creek is a historic American iron that’s pretty hard to come by. We try not to buy slices or part-slices in …
Arispe, Mexico
Here are some photos from a 2003 expedition to Arispe. Unfortunately, we didn’t find any meteorites, but it was a memorable trip …
Boxhole, IIIAB
The Boxhole meteorite crater is ~170 meters in diameter, and is a very well-preserved impact, supposedly dating to only around 5,500 years …
Buffalo Gap, IAB-ungrouped
We wrote the Meteoritical Bulletin write-up for this iron; I can’t think of anything else to add. In short, it’s similar to …
Bur-Abor, IIIAB
Bur-Abor is a special one for us. Some ten or fifteen years ago, we emailed Eric Twelker about a few Bur-Abor specimens …
Burns, IIIAB
The recovery of Burns is described in its Meteoritical Bulletin write-up: The recovery of the meteorite was described in much greater detail …
Camp Wood, Texas
Here are some photos from our trip to pick up Camp Wood, a 326 lb. iron meteorite from a town of the …
irons
Iron meteorites can be divided into two main groups: those that formed in the cores of large differentiated bodies, and those that …
Camp Wood, IIIAB
I don’t have much to add to the Bulletin description of this iron. As of 2016, Camp Wood is the largest iron …
Canyon Diablo, IAB-MG
Meteor Crater is one of the most famous impact craters on Earth. Between 25,000 and 50,000 years ago, an 80 – 120 …
Deport, IAB-sLL
There’s not much online about this Texan find; the bulletin contains scant information, and I couldn’t find any papers describing the discovery. …
Gibeon, IVA
~45 kilograms, individual with hole. ‘The Man in the Moon.’ ~51 kilogram oriented Gibeon with spotty fusion crust and flow-lines. Photos taken …
Henbury, IIIAB
The meteorite craters at Henbury, Central Australia, by Arthur Richard Alderman, 1932. 27 grams, Ward’s Natural Science Establishment label. ~3 kilograms of …
Mesa La Caguama, IAB-MG
This “extremely heavy rock” was found by Francisco Arce Arce in 1971. It was discovered in Baja California along a burro trail …
Morasko, IAB-MG
There is far more to say about Morasko than I can include here. In brief, the fall occurred between 5,000 and 5,500 …
Mount Dooling, IC
The first mass of Mount Dooling was recovered in 1909; it weighed 31.3 kilograms. I wasn’t able to track down Simpson’s 1911 …
The irons of Ziz, IAB
Ziz, otherwise known as Northwest Africa 854, is a beautifully fresh iron meteorite from Algeria. It is chemically similar to Canyon Diablo, …
Tafrawet, IIIAB
I’ve been told that Tafrawet was a stunning 32 kilogram iron. The 3 kilogram end-cut pictured below certainly suggests as much. Thick …
Tata, IIIAB
Tata, otherwise known as NWA 1430, consisted of a single 113 kilogram iron meteorite that was, honestly, pretty ugly. It had been …
NWA 3205, IAB-ungrouped
This iron turned out to be compositionally unusual, with a very high iridium content. The Meteoritical Bulletin says a bit more:
NWA 3206, IAB-sLH
This 176 gram disk-shaped iron is chemically a little odd and is structurally unique. It has a great microscopic pattern, but there’s …
NWA 3208, IIIAB
This iron is a highly shocked IIIAB — so shocked that its Thomson structure is almost completely erased. But, while preparing the …
NWA 7787, Iron
This 203 gram iron meteorite is one of the freshest and most beautiful to come out of Northwest Africa. It is unclassified …
NWA 8154, Ungrouped Iron
This is an odd one, with 3-dimensional graphite sprays. The Meteoritical Bulletin writeup contains a plethora of information: Paired irons include NWA …
NWA 8156, IVA
This is a pretty one to escape the saw; it’s fairly fresh, oriented, and has a fine pattern. It has a well-defined …
NWA, Medium Octahedrite I
This 1,026 gram iron meteorite came from Said Haddany at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show in 2010. It appears to be …
NWA, Medium Octahedrite II
This iron appears to be a medium octahedrite, from the pattern visible through stress fractures in the fusion crust. It came from …
NWA, Coarse Octahedrite
This ~1 kilogram heat shield has some unusual features.
NWA, Oriented Iron
This 267.5 gram heat-shield came from Aras Jonikas. When I first saw photos, it looked so smooth and round that I thought …
Odessa, IAB
64,000 years ago, a massive piece of nickel-iron entered the atmosphere over what is now Northwest Texas. It was a bad day …
Saint Augustine, IID
I don’t have much to add to the Meteoritical Bulletin write-up for this unusual iron. Here’s an image of the 21 kilogram …
Sikhote-Alin, IIAB
The single largest meteorite fall in modern history occurred on February 12th, 1947, at ~10:38 am local time. In Primorsky Krai, a …
Toluca, IAB-sLL
A comprehensive description of the history and discovery of Toluca can be found in Farrington’s 1915 Catalog of North American Meteorites. It …
Trenton, IIIAB
Trenton is a historic American iron first discovered in the 1850s in Wisconsin. Masses of Trenton were initially known simply as the …
Udei Station, IAB-ungrouped
This iron is a witnessed fall from 1927, and it’s an odd meteorite chock full of interesting inclusions. This particular specimen exhibits …